H. Beam Piper Covers #1

H. Beam Piper is a notable author in the SF genre with a bunch of wacky and zany covers.  Let's look!

campfire story [cropsey] - original poem

campfire story [cropsey]

in a fire pit

camp out

we recollect

and dictate

our stories

of camp blackfoot

burnt to ashes

nothing left

but the ruins

where once

everyone hated cropsey

an evil bastard

caretaker 

he was a drunk

two bottles a day

whiskey his choice

most days 

spending his time

up in space

but if he ever

caught you

look out!

he could 

strip the lead paint

from the walls

solely by breath

a sadist

generating real pleasure

from hurting people

scaring them

his garden shears

long thin blades

and demonic stare

was enough

to make any man's life

living hell

yet hell breeds chaos

fire and hate

he crisped and cried

for his return

paid his dues

in an institute

he survived

by eating 

his hunts alive

but now he's out there

watching, waiting

don't look!

he'll see you

don't move!

he'll hear you

don't breathe!

you're dead!

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16495679-campfire-story-cropsey-by-Colvet

somy - original poem

 

somy

if Christianity is disomy

and Satanism is trisomy

then quantum mechanics

makes quadsomy

how many somys

does it take

to get to the

hard candy-coated center

of human consciousness

collected?

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16489889-somy-by-Colvet

Ben Bova Covers #1

Ben Bova has a handful of hard SF texts that are quite legendary.  The scientific/mathematical depth of the ideas explored in his works in unparalleled by a lot of other writers in the field.  Not only does he write hard SF, but he has a bunch of epic series to his name as well.  Not to mention, some dope covers!

diablo red - original poem

 

diablo red

safeguard

the archaic artifacts

and sacred objects

of our parent's

distant offspring

let the bloody heritages

fall free from their

accumulated flasks

and metallo-matrixed

coated metal guards

feel the flows

of their glowing torments

and their aural piths

accumulated

on foreign housewares

and ancient jars

we offer these objects

for the shadows of the night

the dead kings

defeated warriors

gunned-down militia

fighting the cyclops

and flying sirens

of ancient times

but fear must be secular

and intriguingly molecular

it seems as if

these chemical cages

floating in the ether

can trap the calls

from violent men

with faces of Diablo red

they have phone recordings

of mischievous children

intelligently interacting

and playing with a foggy

out of focused

spinning world

of shadows and chaos

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16555841-diablo-red-by-Colvet

field notes #7 (Q200-233)

 field notes - try to put some logic into these nonsensical daydreams

200.  Are we living in a hologram?

201.  Is life a stage and we are the theatre?

202.  Who freed Willy? Did he/she get a lifetime achievement award?

203.  How many Big Boy statues have been stolen worldwide?

204.  How many Waffle Houses are their in Georgia and Florida alone?  Hoe many in GA vs. the world?  FL vs. the world?  Why?

205.  What is your Wikifeet rating?

206.  What is your credit score?

207.  Can I park here?

208.  Huh?

209.  Can you get parasitic worms from eating too much raw cookie dough or is that a myth?

210. Where is Waldo?

211.  Can I sleep over?

212.  What is actually inside Area 51?

213.  Who is Samo?  JK….Basquiat overrated?  

214.  Who coined the euphemism “mushroom cap” and were they a mycologist?

215.  Do you remember past lives?

216.  What comes after 5G?

217.  Can living without clothes be possible in the current climate and since humans have relied on their for so many years?

218.  Vanilla or chocolate?

219.  Do women worry about their pussy size like how men worry about their dick size? Or is it an insecurity over tightness not size?

220.  Is it racist to thoroughly enjoy “All Skrewed Up”?

221.  Are menstrual cycles linked to the lunar cycles?

222. What was the first group to engage in human sacrifice specifically for the Devil?

223.  Where in the fuck in the world is Carmen San Diego at now?  Are her parents worried? Why hasn't their Adam Alert done anything?

ghost tower - original poem

 

ghost tower

it's a ghost tower

in the center of the city

paranormal

Taiwanese shrines

shining through the

elm green ferns

and subtle vegetables

growing and hugging

the earth sunken

with spiritual owings

follow me

on his tuk tuk

through the dirty

shallow Bangkok streets

ascending

through a fever dream

spooked

by our drivers

crazed

laughable stride

following us

in the alleyway

community

why's he coming at us?

why's he moving like that?

I'm awfully frightened

Scooby-Doo zoinked

but I'm ready to break in?

and escape from

your zombie dance moves

I'm going all the way to the top

despite your warns

I'm hopping on your tuk tuk

I'm jumping the fence

lets go escape this mess

and climb the ghost tower

in the center of town

totally spooked

LINK:  https://allpoetry.com/poem/16491578-ghost-tower-by-Colvet